Self-styled “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth was ready to wipe Iran from the face of the earth had there not been a ceasefire agreement by 8 PM ET last night. “We had a target set, locked and loaded, of infrastructure, bridges, power plants. Remember, this is a terror regime. The military regime used all of these things for dual use, to fund their military to fund their their terror campaigns,” Hegseth told reporters at the Pentagon this morning. “We had a lot of legitimate targets. They knew exactly the scope of what we were capable of.”
Hegseth painted “Operation Epic Fury” as a great military victory that supposedly destroyed Iran’s military potential for years to come without, however, explaining how it was that Iran was able to keep up a steady drumbeat of drone and missile attacks every day of the 40-day conflict right up until yesterday.
